This is the second fruit tree to get uprooted following the heavy rain in our garden. The first was the custard apple tree with many fruits in their early stage!
This papaya tree has given us fruits for five years now and it was our favourite tree among the four other papaya trees!
Watching all the raw fruits on the ground in our kitchen garden area and the tree fallen to the backyard of our kitchen, I felt that the tree was sadly bidding farewell to us!
A tree too has its life. A jackfruit tree in the hospital campus which was trimmed before the monsoon is now drying, probably the water seeped in to the stem through the cut surface ! I noticed that the custard apple and the papaya tree were uprooted, probably because the soil got eroded from around their roots in the rain! The trees also need attention and regular care, which is sometimes forgotten!
It brought a message of 'tilling the ground and tending the plants'! We are custodians of our environment!
M.C.Mathew(text and photo)
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